A very quick post for today, recently I have been working on some code to gather metrics around SQL Server memory, more specifically, how much memory is on your server, your total / target memory and PLE. (If you want to know more about total vs target see this link: https://blobeater.blog/2017/03/01/sql-server-target-vs-total-memory/)
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Azure Robots – Index Performance Recommendation
They are watching me and my Azure SQL Database and recently I noticed a low impact performance recommendation was made. Naturally I became very interested. Within your database (when in the portal) under operations you may notice something similar to the below:
Find when your SQL Server database grew
A quick post that is hopefully useful, I wanted a quick way to find the time, size of the database file size change and who caused it.
AD Authentication and Azure SQL Database
Setting up AD authentication with Azure SQL Database sounds simple, it is assuming you plan carefully. I did run into issues but once rectified it felt great using AD authentication in Azure rather than just SQL logins.
SQL Server Wait Types Library – UPGRADED!
Have you heard of SQLskills? Have you heard of the waits library? If not then where have you been hiding?